In the run up to the 2015 elections the talk among the APNU+AFC hierarchy was that they expected to win by about three seats, but as it turned out they won by less than one. In the immediate aftermath of the elections the PPP/C claimed that they were rigged and in response to that statement I wrote in this column `Dear PPP, No one cares!’ (SN 27/05/2015). Quite apart from my concern about governments being in power for long periods of time, the major reason I was pleased the PPP/C lost the elections was because it meant the end of the party’s pernicious effort to dominate the political space in Guyana.
However, now that the PPP/C is about to go to congress it might be a good time to indicate that from my assessment, properly utilised, one of the very factors that led to its demise can now contribute to its redemption, and this is enhanced by the far from sterling performance of the current regime.
Unlike the PPP/C and some of its supporters, for me democracy (majority rule) it is not an end in itself but a means for providing the good life for the citizenry, and the PPP/C attempt to dominate the
